Variety News reports that Jim will star in "I Love You Phillip Morris," a dark comedy, written and directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, the team behind "Bad Santa" and produced by Andrew Lazar and Far Shariat.
Based on a book by Steve McVicker, the true story based film casts Jim as Steven Russell, a married father whose exploits land him in a Texas jail where he falls madly in love with his cellmate, who eventually is set free leading Russell to escape from Texas prisons four times.
The film combines the lighthearted, romantic and dark tones and Luc Bessons company Europacorp is set to finance it with a bargain $20 million budget.
No indication yet of a timeframe but Jim is said to be engaging in back to back films before the SAG contract expires next summer.

As long as you guys know I'm looking forward to this. A dark comedy? About a gay guy? In Jail? Written by the Bad Santa-writers (they suck)? I wanna know how this is going to end. It's original, that's for sure.

if Jim does this film his street cred will go down the toilet it will finish him i really belive this will be thwe end im finished i wont see any more of his films i mean look what happened with brockback it was neverending farce gayfest im not against gays but Jim not the man for this unless hes trying to tell us something arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

It's as if he's trying to do something totally unexpected.....lol.....together with slasher flick and musical i think a Porn is on the cards.. The naughty devil is trying to keep people on their toes......lol

ahhhhhhhh, is he gay (in the movie) hey, the pic looks good, but it is kind of creepy. So anyways...i know he should do Me Time. This is like another Cable Guy. AHHHHHHHHH, i hope it isn't R so i can take my brother to see it, and many others.

When once asked what I would do if I met Jim I said that I would give him so many hugs because he is so damn HOT and then I would tell him to get married. Response, "he is hot, but...nevermind."

wooly wrote:if Jim does this film his street cred will go down the toilet it will finish him i really belive this will be thwe end im finished i wont see any more of his films i mean look what happened with brockback it was neverending farce gayfest im not against gays but Jim not the man for this unless hes trying to tell us something arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh